My Daming New Empire

And this invention became Daming's first patent application.However, the applicant was not Chang Kuan, but the Yu Heng Qing Officials Department of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty. This was also a patent application under an administrative order, and the applicant and the approving party were both the same institution.

For this purpose, the Yu Heng Qing Officials Department specially arranged for a Yuanwailang from the fifth rank to be in charge of this matter, which is considered to be a special agency.

According to the preliminary regulations, the Department of Officials of the Ministry of Industry Yu Heng Qing has the ten-year patent right of this patent, and no other person or institution is allowed to prevent it.Any improvement made on this basis, the Yu Hengqing official department also has the rights and interests.

And this Ming Dynasty's first patent, after being applied by the Ministry of Industry, immediately caused a shock in the entire Jiangnan. The first ones to jump out were not others, but the eunuchs of the internal officials.

Because the weaving industry in the Ming Dynasty was under the Weaving Bureau, and the Weaving Bureau was under the supervision of internal officials.The internal officials saw that the Ministry of Industry invented such an easy-to-use machine. Originally, one person could only manage one loom, but now one person can manage five looms. The efficiency has increased by five times, which means that they can now expand five looms. double the production capacity.

But once the patent comes out, they can't prevent it, which is tantamount to cutting off their source of income!

The internal officials were not afraid of the Ministry of Industry, so they directly brought the lawsuit to Dali Temple.

Dali Temple has never taken over this case, so it reported the matter to Zhu Di.However, Zhu Di handed over the case to the Ministry of Industry's Yu Heng Qing Officials Department for adjudication because he could not leapfrog the report.

Because the Ministry of Industry is the administrator of patents, the Ministry of Industry must first make a ruling. If the Ministry of Industry's ruling is unfair, the internal officials can sue the Ministry of Industry as a defendant in Dali Temple.

As soon as this news came out, it caused a sensation all over the country. The sensation was not the new thing of patents, but what everyone was interested in was the lawsuit between the two imperial court departments!

For more than half a month, the lawsuit between the Ministry of Industry and the Internal Supervisor came and went.First of all, the internal officials denied the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry on the grounds that the weaving industry was under the jurisdiction of internal officials.

However, the Ministry of Industry determined that this technology belonged to the Ministry of Industry on the grounds that the improvement of looms was made by officials of the Ministry of Industry. loom.

The ruling party and the interested party belong to the same family, so this lawsuit cannot be fought.

The internal officials also knew that Zhu Zhanji created the patent, so the eunuch Hou Xian personally met Zhu Zhanji and asked about the regulations.

Hou Xian has also been very prosperous in these years. In the autumn of the first year of Yongle, Hou Xian was appointed by Zhu Di to lead the troops of Lintan Tibetan chieftain Zan to go deep into Weizang.

In December of the fourth year of Yongle, he successfully invited Harima and other religious leaders to Nanjing and accepted the official positions and titles of the new dynasty.

This also means that the entire Qinghai-Tibet has officially become the territory of Ming Dynasty.

His first mission as an envoy was a complete success, which made Zhu Di very happy and promoted him from a young prison to a eunuch.

Later, he followed Zheng He on his second and third voyages to the Western Seas. After gaining experience, he led the fleet to the Western Seas many times alone, but the fleet he led was small in scale and had special missions each time. , so it is unknown to future generations.

And now, he is preparing to lead the fleet to the Bangla countries, which are the countries in the East India area of ​​later generations, and is preparing to develop the trade between Daming and the countries there.

Because Zhu Zhanji is in charge of the navy now, the two have had many contacts to discuss the size and tasks of the fleet. Of course, Zhu Zhanji arranged a lot of private work for him.

Seeing him coming to the door, Zhu Zhanji only said: "If you want the craftsmen in the world to work hard and have the courage to improve, the patent cannot be revoked."

Hou Xian immediately understood what Zhu Zhanji meant, and asked the people below to discuss the patent authorization with the Ministry of Industry after returning.

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Although the lawsuit between the Ministry of Industry and the Internal Supervisor was settled, the turmoil caused by patents slowly fermented.

There are only three weaving mansions in the internal government, which are in the capital, Suzhou and Hangzhou.However, the weaving industry of the entire Ming Dynasty, especially the weaving of coarse cloth, is the largest in the Ming Dynasty, and it is found in every region in the whole territory.

The Weaving House is a high-quality institution, but its scale is limited, and the private weaving industry is the real big head.

When I saw that the internal officials had to honestly purchase technology from the Ministry of Industry and improve the loom.The various guilds in the capital also understood that the imperial court was really serious about this patent matter.

Now that there are rules, it is necessary to use the rules. Recently, Liu Jie, a member of the Yuheng Qingli Department of the Ministry of Industry, has changed from a fringe figure who no one cares about to the number one celebrity in the capital.

The major guilds have cleaned up many of their own unique skills, and then selected some less important ones to apply for patents at the Yu Heng Qing Officials Department.

A patent is only valid for ten years, and after ten years, it will become a technology that anyone can use.Therefore, if others can prevent it, of course they need to apply for a patent, but if they cannot prevent it, they must not let others know the formula.

Of course, some patents still have some value, and some patents are simply pretending to be fake.

However, no matter what kind of technology, the principals of the Yu Heng Qing Officials Department registered one by one and issued patent licenses.

At this time, many talents discovered that patents not only have a time limit, but also a regional limit, and there is a transition period.

Not all technologies can be patented. For example, for some technologies that are now in general use, those businessmen who want to monopolize through patented technologies find that they cannot opportunistically.

Moreover, during the transition period, some people will come up with the same technology to apply for a patent, and the Ministry of Industry will also identify the difference between the two technologies, and the best one will be awarded a formal certificate.

Although there are only three aspects of patent regulations, there are hundreds of detailed clauses, which almost block the attempts of those who want to speculate.

However, the most lively thing now is the promotion of new textile machines.Because the Ministry of Industry is also planning to grant a patent beneficiary in each state capital besides the Weaving Government, merchants who are willing to replace the new looms can apply to the Ministry of Industry, and then through bidding, the Ministry of Industry will select a cooperative merchant.

Cooperating with the Ministry of Industry is tantamount to getting a gold medal for avoiding death. Those merchants who are wealthy but have no official relationship are a positive group of people.

After getting the news, they rushed to the capital from all over the country, wanting to get this opportunity.

Although the recent weather in the capital is hot, the enthusiasm of these businessmen is even higher.

On this day, Zhu Zhanji went to Jiajiang Industrial Zone again, hoping to solve the problem of high-pressure punching machines on the spot.

Because in Europe, hydraulic punching machines appeared in the fifteenth century, which can produce plate armor.So Zhu Zhanji naively thought at first that this technology is not a problem for the current Ming Dynasty.

But he is still too naive, because the current Daming has no technical reserves in this area at all, that is, there are no people who understand this area.From one to two, from two to three is easy, but from zero to one, the difficulty is much greater.

Although the technology of hydraulic forging is exactly the same as that of pounding rice, rice pounding only needs a small amount of hydraulic power. Not to mention the Yangtze River, even a small river can do it.

But if you want to use water power to drive a heavy forging hammer to punch out silver coins or plate armor, for the current Daming, you have to start from scratch.

The main effect of hydraulic power is stability, not violence, how to turn stable hydraulic power into violent impact.

From the power output of the transmission part to driving the forging hammer during stamping.In the era without chains, in order to achieve the strength of stamping silver coins, in the process, the problems that need to be solved are far from one or two points.

In addition, cold forging and hot forging, the development of molds, the invention of the sawtooth periphery, and even the determination of the pattern of silver coins all required Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Di to make their own decisions.

This silver coin Zhu Zhanji wanted to adopt the design model of the later Yuan Datou, because this kind of relief forging can be done now, but it is difficult to prevent it.

As for steel molds, today's craftsmen have mastered the wax etching method, and relying on manual polishing, they can get very fine molds, but they cannot be mass-produced.

However, at this time, we have to mention the material technology.Because ordinary steel begins to deform after a few hundred times under vigorous stamping.So if you want to make a mold durable, you need to study harder steel molds.

After the New Year, the Ministry of Industry sent a survey team to Nan'an Prefecture to look for a hard ore found there.However, although the ore was found, it could not be refined, because the current mine furnace could not burn these ores at all.

Even the craftsmen couldn't melt these ores with nitric acid, so there was nothing they could do.

Zhu Zhanji was also dumbfounded when he got the news. It was only then that he remembered that the melting point of tungsten is almost the highest among all metals, so it was used as a wick. Now there is no way to deal with this thing.

At this time, he thought of manganese steel again.

The use of manganese by humans can be traced back to the Stone Age, when pyrolusite was used as a pigment for cave murals.

This thing is very common, even iron ore has a high content.And like the glazed kiln of Ma's family, manganese is needed to decolorize or add color to the molten glazed solution.

The temper of the fusion of manganese and steel is very weird and interesting. If [-]% manganese is added to the steel, the resulting low-manganese steel is as brittle as glass and will shatter when knocked.

Therefore, the earliest iron ore exhausted all methods to remove manganese in molten iron.